CMI On TV – ‘Game of Thrones’ Throws too Much Gay at Viewers

Gratuitous nudity and gay sex on HBO.

By

Tyler O'Neil

April 29, 2013 - 10:13am

HBO’s “Game of Thrones” is at it again – with nudity and
homosexuality.

Ser Loras Tyrell (Flinn Jones) – the valiant knight with
whom Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) is in love – swings the other way. In seasons
1 and 2, we saw his homosexual exploits, and now he’s at it again.

In this episode, “Littlefinger” (Aidan Gillen) sends a male
whore to seduce Loras and glean information from him. Loras obliges well, divulging
that the Tyrells plan to marry Sansa to Loras, thereby taking the rightful heir
to the North. Littlefinger tells Lord Tywin Lannister (Charles Dance), the most
powerful man in the kingdom.

Tywin foils the plot by arranging two weddings – his
daughter Cersei (Lena Headey) to Loras, his son Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) to
Sansa. With one stroke, he silences the Tyrells and usurps their claim to the
North.

The intrigue is excellent, but the scene between Loras and
the boy whore totally unnecessary. It isn’t even in the book, so the notoriously
liberal[1] George R. R. Martin is not to blame.

Nudity, not necessary to show that two men are gay, also
hurt two other scenes in this episode: it weakened a cute love scene between
Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) and Ygritte (Rose Leslie) and soiled another
excellent plot twist with Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and Brienne
of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie).

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